Improvement in band-combs



D. N. RUPES.

F Band Bombs. No..145,071, Patented Dec. 2,1873.

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M/QQW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID N. ROPES, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE INDIA- RUBBER COMB COMPANY, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAND-COMBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,071, dated December 2, 1873; application filed October 1, 1873 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID N. ROPES, of Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combs for the Head, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a back elevation, and Fig. 2 a cross-section taken at the line A of Fig. 1.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to combination-combs, and other combs worn in the hair, which have heretofore been made with an ornament of various forms, extending above the middle part of the band, and in one piece with the band, or of a separate piece permanently secured, by rivets, to the band. My invention consists in connecting the ornament with the band, so that one ornament can be readily removed and another substituted.

I will describe my invention in connection with a combination-comb, and from this any comb-maker will be able to apply my said invention to other combs worn in the hair.

. In the accompanying drawings, a represents the elastic band which connects the two side combs c c, and b a projection from the back edge, which is bent up, as represented. This projection b is formed with a rabbet, f, and the ornament d with a corresponding projection,

g, and fillet h, to fit in the rabbetf, so that the projection g of the ornament will fit against the projection b,- and then further providing the rear face of the ornament with two turnbuttons, j j, which are secured by rivets, 'on which they can turn, and which are formed with lips to extend under the lower edge i of the projection b.

By this arrangement one ornament can be removed and a difi'erent one substituted, so

that one comb may be used with a variety of ornaments 5 but, instead of this mode of connecting the ornaments with the elastic band of the comb, other equivalent devices may be substituted-such, for instance, as forming the under part of the elastic band with a socket to receive a tongue on the lower edge of the ornament, and provided with a spring-catch, as used for fastening bracelets.

RVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a band-comb, the detachable vertical ornament secured and adjusted substantially by means such as hereinbefore described, so that one ornament may be removed and another substituted at will, asset forth.

DAVID v. norns.

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PHILLIPS ABBOTT, WILLIAM Soor'r. 

